Rensis Likert (5 August 1903–3 September 1981) was an American educator and organizational psychologist best known for his research on management

Management

Management in all business and organizational activities is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively...

 styles. He is also famous for developing the Likert Scale

Likert scale

A Likert scale is a psychometric scale commonly involved in research that employs questionnaires. It is the most widely used approach to scaling responses in survey research, such that the term is often used interchangeably with rating scale, or more accurately the Likert-type scale, even though...

, a psychometric scale commonly involved in research using questionnaires and the linking pin model

Linking pin model

The linking pin model is an idea developed by Rensis Likert. It presents an organisation as a number of overlapping work units in which a member of a unit is the leader of another unit...

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Rensis Likert was born in Cheyenne, Wyoming

Cheyenne, Wyoming

Cheyenne is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Wyoming and the county seat of Laramie County. It is the principal city of the Cheyenne, Wyoming, Metropolitan Statistical Area which encompasses all of Laramie County. The population is 59,466 at the 2010 census. Cheyenne is the...

 to George Herbert Likert and Cora A. (née Zonne) Likert, where his father was an engineer with the Union Pacific Railroad

Union Pacific Railroad

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